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GQ Names Aniston Man of the Year

NEW YORK – GQ magazine’s Man of the Year is a woman. Jennifer Aniston earned the honor because the magazine says the actress showed a lot of poise, grace and good humor during her breakup with Brad Pitt this year. She may be Man of the Year, but Aniston shows …

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Report: Scam Targeted ChoicePoint in 2002

LOS ANGELES – Two Nigerian-born scam artists were arrested in Los Angeles in 2002 on charges of using ChoicePoint Inc. (CPS) to tap into its vast database of personal information, a similar security breach that the data warehouser announced last month, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Bibiana Benson, 39, of Sherman …

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JPMorgan to Spin Off Private Equity Fund

NEW YORK – JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) said on Tuesday it will spin off its $13 billion private equity fund, but will keep a similar unit recently acquired in its merger with Bank One Corp. The spin-off, which comes amid a trend of bank spin-offs of private equity funds, …

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